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    This must be why Madeleine McCann was trending Archived Message

    Posted by Raskolnikov on June 4, 2020, 12:14 pm

    on twitter the other day.

    https://www.dumptheguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jun/04/madeleine-mccann-parents-say-focus-on-suspect-potentially-very-significant

    The parents of Madeleine McCann believe the identification of a convicted German sex offender as the key suspect in their daughter’s disappearance is “potentially very significant”, their spokesman has said.

    An international appeal for information is under way after police in Britain and Germany revealed that a serving prisoner is the new prime suspect in the disappearance of the three-year-old on 3 May 2007.

    German police said they were investigating the suspected murder of Madeleine and described the 43-year-old man, who has not been named, as a “multiple criminal sex offender who has also been convicted of child sexual abuse”.

    Detectives in Germany are due to disclose more details about the investigation in a press conference on Thursday.

    Asked on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme about German police classifying the investigation as a murder appeal, Mitchell pointed out that the Metropolitan police were still classifying it as a missing person case.

    He said police in Britain had been at pains to say there remained no evidence that Madeleine had been murdered or harmed and that detectives were keeping an open mind.

    Mitchell added: “This is another important chapter in the search for their daughter. They’ve never given up hope that she may still be found alive but they are realistic. They say that whatever the outcome of this particular line of investigation may be, they do need to know what happened to their daughter to find peace and to bring whoever’s responsible to justice.”

    The suspect was described as being white, with short blond hair, and around 6ft tall. Now aged 43, in 2007 he was 30, and police said he may have looked as young as 25. The man, who is in prison on an unrelated matter, had been in the Algarve between 1995 and 2007, with short spells in Germany during that time.

    On Wednesday investigators revealed details of the phone number used by the man and a number he had been called from, along with photos of a camper van he was said to have been using to live “a transient lifestyle” in Portugal’s Algarve.

    An appeal for information was made for anyone who recognised the numbers, the camper van or a Jaguar car linked to the man. German police also issued an appeal with additional details on national television.

    Police said significant information regarding the man had emerged after investigators made an appeal in May 2017, the 10th anniversary of Madeleine’s disappearance. Madeleine would have turned 17 on 12 May this year.

    If it brings the case to end, so much the better but how has it taken thirteen years to turn this information up? All that money and police time and then they say this information came up in 2017, so it's taken three years to get what seems to be attainable with a couple of phone calls (I'm probably exaggerating there, but still, it's not THREE YEARS of police work).

    Something always seemed a bit off to me about that case but it's very sad.

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